Conchitina Cruz
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Conchitina "Chingbee" R. Cruz is a Filipina poet
Biography
Formerly an
While on a
Her works include Disappear, a chapbook published in 2005 by High Chair, Dark Hours, published in 2005 by The University of the Philippines Press, elsewhere held and lingered, published in 2008 by High Chair, A catalogue of clothes for sale from the closet of Christine Abella: perpetual student, ukay fan, and compulsive traveler, published in 2012 by the Youth & Beauty Brigade, and There is no emergency, published in 2015 by the Youth & Beauty Brigade. She is also the youngest poet in the anthology A Habit of Shores, the third part in Gémino H. Abad's three-volume collection of one hundred years of Philippine poetry and verse.
Some of her works have also appeared in
Awards
Cruz has won two Palanca Awards to date, one in 1996 for "Second Skin" and another in 2001 for "The Shortest Distance". Her book Dark Hours won the 2006 National Book Award for Poetry.
References
- ^ Gaba, Marc (Oct–Dec 2002). "Conversation with Conchitina Cruz". High Chair Issue#1.
- ^ https://decl.kal.upd.edu.ph/faculty/creative-writing/